Boris Ratner wrote:
0. Radeon 9000 (imho) IS supported by http://dri.sf.net check it out - they have a whole XFree86-dri server tree
for debian sid with all of the drivers inside. (you don't have to recompile your kernel at all if this works)
dri.sf.net drivers DO use native kernel radeon drm module.
I eventually took the suggestion above, installed the debian packages from dri.sf.net (though later I saw a warning that they are defective and the CVS version should be used, btu still it works). Removed all the ATI proprietary stuff, configured XF86Config-4 as per the instructions (more or less) and now I get glxgears running at ~1880 FPS, about 3.5 faster than before (around 550 FPS)). I expected it to be around 5000 FPS but maybe I looked at numbers from better cards (the 9000 PRO, for instance?).
(What do you say? will all those "shoot-em-up" games run well with such frame rates?)
I still have issues - KDM stopped working, there is a warning from X11 about "not finding device for BusID PCI:2:0:0" and such, but I'll try to shoot them myself first (they might be related to other packages which were upgraded in "unstable").
Ah - and I also took the suggestion from here about doubling the IDE bus speed to 66MHz. I think my IDE also supports 133 (and the disk supports 100, I think). But still 66 is better than 33 last time I checked. :-)
Cheers,
--Amos
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